Coin toss can be rigged: Study

Flipping a coin may not be one of the most honest rescue path in a tie-up situation as a new study claimed that coin-toss can be rigged.

With practice,a coin-flip can be manipulated to turn up heads or tails,researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada said.

According to the study,published in Canadian Medical Association Journal,various factors including the flipping motion can help you predict the outcome up to two-thirds of the time.

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The researchers – Matthew Clark and Brian Westerberg – trained 13 medical students to flip a coin in a way that would greatly push the odds in their favour and asked them to toss a coin 300 times and try to influence the way it landed.

They discovered that with just two minutes’ practice,the students could make the coin land on the side they chose on average 54 per cent of the time.

Seven of the 13 came up with “significantly more heads” than tails. One of the participants achieved heads 68 per cent of the time,’The Telegraph’ reported.

The researchers noted that the side of the coin which is uppermost before it is flipped is marginally more likely to land facing upwards,primarily because the disc does not spin symmetrically in flight.

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